Believers Church
Choice 01/17/2010
 
Choice God the Father makes all the choices. In the old testament He chose and sent certain ones to fulfill His plans. Like Noah, Abraham, Jacob, David, Moses, etc. He even chose a certain tribe to be the priesthood. Today because of Jesus we all have a choice.

Deuteronomy 30:19-20

His plan has always been for us to choose obedience to Him. But instead of a choice it became a duty. And it’s still this way today for some. If most of us knew that we were allowed to fulfill the lust of our flesh we would probably indulge. We would live for today with little or no worry of tomorrow or eternity.

Romans 13:14

Well it is not ok to fulfill the lust of your flesh. This is why we have the choice to choose this day who we will serve, our flesh or God. The law was brought so that we would know what sin was.

Galatians 3:10-11, 23-26

If we live according to our flesh we are living under the law of sin and death. The law kills. Without Heeding to the instruction of the Holy Spirit The letter of the law will brig forth death. (Like Judas 2 Corinthians 3:5-6)

Romans 6:23

Sin brings for death. It’s through His spirit that we have freedom from the law, with the promise of life, if we choose.

Romans 6:5-8

To walk after the flesh is to follow the desires of the old man. To walk after the spirit is to follow the desires of the Holy Spirit instead of your own. It is your choice.

Romans 7:5-6

They that live by the law will die by the law, like Judas. If we choose to obey and it’s not a real heart change, is this real obedience or is it a work like Judas? Judas appeared to be obedient but on the inside he had his own agenda. He was not living in Christ. Jesus came to bring a circumcision to the heart.

Matthew 23:25-26

It is not about what is on the outside, it’s about what is in your heart.

1 John 2:15-17

Is your zeal and your heart running after the things of God, or are you pretending with an outward appearance like Judas? Judas died without repentance because of the law, the law killed him.

Romans 8:1-8

Jesus came and fulfilled the law. Therefore we are really free from its curse. But we have to live in Christ Jesus because He is the one who was obedient in His flesh to fulfill God’s law. Now the law is made perfect through Jesus.

You can be perfect because He is perfect. Because we are satisfied through His spirit we are declared righteous in the Father’s eyes. The law provokes a life full of works, death, and bondage. The new covenant provokes Spirit led living, life, and freedom.

Joshua 24:15

Choose this day who you will serve. What is really in your heart? What is keeping you from your Lord?
 


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